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Ukraine – hoping for peace but preparing for war
Ukrainians have accepted the loss of Crimea, but discrimination against dissenters has already started and partial mobilisation makes them very apprehensive that they may be called on to defend their...
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The Rohingya refugee making factory
If the production of refugees was an industry, Myanmar would be among the world’s market leaders. And of all its products the Rohingya would be one of the most lucrative. A niche but growing market of...
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The Arab Spring popular uprisings – myth and reality
It is critical to recognize the significance of this revolutionary chapter in the modern history of the Middle East and the creative conceptions and articulations of resistance that shattered the...
View ArticleThe Clegg-Farage debate
If Nick Clegg takes one lesson from the first debate into the BBC second leg next week, it should be to spend less time on 'what the real facts show', if he does want to do more than mobilise existing...
View ArticleThe drone evasion
A parliamentary report on the UK's use of armed-drones in Afghanistan is, in its language and its attitude to casualties, a study in closure.An official study of the use and impact of armed-drones...
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Out of the Guantanamo frying pan into the Russian fire
While Russia steps up calls for the US to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, its own abuse and mistreatment of Russian nationals who returned to the country from Guantánamo a decade ago is less well...
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Shock U-turn as sell-off of George Eliot hospital cancelled
The planned sell-off of George Elliott hospital has been cancelled, hailed as a "victory for common sense" by unions and campaigners.Image: Unite Controversial moves to offer the running of George...
View ArticleBritain and Bahrain: still allied against democracy and human rights
An interview with Maryam al-Khawaja, a leading Bahraini human rights activist, on the continuing protests in Bahrain, the regime’s continued repression and the UK’s involvement in the ongoing...
View ArticleOnce I Entered a Garden: a foretaste of the 2014 Open City Docs documentary...
openDemocracy welcomes a new cooperation with Open City Docs Fest, which is showing Avi Mograbi's latest film, Once I Entered a Garden (Nichnasti pa’am lagam) next Monday, in London's Clapham...
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India: jostling for geopolitical control in Afghanistan
Forecasts past the withdrawal of US and British forces in Afghanistan tend to prize fears of violence and instability spilling over into Pakistan, obscuring the country's vital importance to both India...
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The heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint'
New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation...
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Racism has just taken on different forms
Despite all of the claims of enthusiasm for multiculturalism, there is still an expectation that one culture will dominate others in western countries.French pupils protest against the school turban...
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The Myanmar context
For the first time since independence, government forces and most Ethnic Armed Groups have stopped fighting. This is an historic achievement in peace-making. However, the ceasefire process has yet to...
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It’s time to put money out of its misery
Money talks, but what language is it speaking? New ideas and experiments could reposition money as a source of social justice as well as personal fulfillment. This is the final article in our series on...
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This is Britain: TV celebrities meet people who can't afford to eat
As banks, energy companies and loan sharks feed off the poor, TV celebrities try to find out what poverty means in a BBC documentary series for Sport Relief.Rachel Johnson, Theo Paphitis, Jamie Laing...
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The last camping ground
Russia’s oil goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their rush to extract the black gold that lies beneath. But a family of reindeer herders...
View ArticleBig Brother is cashing in on you
The internet’s cookie monsters are harvesting your secrets. A £90bn industry is going unregulated and unchecked, gathering seemingly unrelated information for trade and profit. ‘On the internet, nobody...
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Kashgar's redevelopment is about more than anti-Uyghur sentiment
While the CCP’s motives for redeveloping Xinjiang's capital are manifold, what seems to be provoking the most anger among residents, is the near total absence of Uyghur presence in decision-making....
View ArticleUkraine and Eurasia's imperial fault-lines
The current conflict has been brewing for a long time and is the result of two asymmetrical imperialisms: Russia's outdated, and rather formal, imperialism, on the one hand, and the west's smart,...
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Still searching for justice: victims in Sri Lanka
Five years on from the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the international community’s patience with the government in investigating gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law...
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